Starbucks already has over 12,000 stores worldwide, but it;’s expanding rapidly, adding an average of six new stores every day. Starbucks’ goal is to saurate markets without cannibalizing existing stores through what the company calls market in-fill. In other words, if the lines are too long at the Starbucks store at one end of the […]

Starbucks is opening its sixth store in Lodi, California, and this time across the street from a popular House of Coffees establishment, according to Lodi News. As is often the case, the move has created some angst among locals.

Do you know of any example where Starbucks competes head to head with an independent coffee house […]